Rasha

Rasha in '18

A Wanted poster of Rasha in his younger days, origin unknown

Rasha al Quaeda Rasha, an eastern druid, played by User:Johnm.

In the Superheroes campaign, Rasha was a... superhero.

In the Ur campaign (in '06), Faunus McClavie's master-- the party was told that Rasha had been slain after exhausting himself casting weather and wasp spells to repel Branok's army, and subsequently being trampled by a panicked horse (Nightmane Swifthoof).

Background

Born on the Bora-Bora Steppe to a shaman mother and warrior father, Rasha grew up on horse milk, yak, and barley. After his father (and most of his tribe) was wiped out in a meaningless territorial dispute with rivals, his mother dragged young Rasha east. Despite being heavily pregnant with Rasha's soon-to-be sister, they made it to a sect of mystics in the Sung-Tao Mountains.

There, after receiving food and succor, Rasha's mother negotiated away her infant daughter in return for certain empowerments of her son Rasha. Thereafter, she died of exhaustion, and Rasha lived with the mystics for a decade.

Rasha proved to be an able student of the ways of nature, if a bit impulsive and distractible.

Once of manly stature, Rasha took to a life of alternating adventure and repose, spending a year at a time alone in the wilderness.

For a short time, he was the Forest Steward of Druid Grove. After a grievous injury, he retired, allowing Serafin Hawkwind to assume the post during his recovery.

Then,...

Traits

• Discipline of Faith - Ritualism
• Impulsive
• Hard to Kill
• Damage Resistance
• High Pain Threshold
• Odious Personal Habit - failure to bathe
• Unattractive
• Danger Sense

Potentially...

• Obscure
• Speak with Animals / Animal Empathy ?
• Speak with Plants / Plant Empathy ?
• Chameleon ?
• Invisibility ?
• Infravision / Night Vision / Dark Vision ?
• Discriminatory smell ?

Inventory Notes

Rasha is an animist and believes that every shred of cloth and mote of dust has a soul. In order to amplify his already prodigious druidic powers, he carries tiny portions of dozens of substances and materials that he insists will help his craft, including this list that weighs just 5 lbs and stashed in the Robe of Rasha:

• Tiny pouches of semi-precious stones, such as jasper, agate, amber, and obsidian.
• Tiny jars of herbs such as myrrh, frankincense, sage, salt, rosemary, cayenne, ginger, pepper, etc
• Sinew thread and a golden needle
• The forelock of a swamp witch
• Orc toenails
• 12 eyelashes of a lion
• The dessicated index finger of an ancient king
• A tiny vial of dragon blood
• A primitive rattle
• Four goose feathers wrapped in a leathery cloth
• A tiny vial of ground tadpoles
• One ancient pentagonal copper coin of Shang Kao
• A 6-foot-long white silk ribbon
• A filthy hempen headband adorned with small white seashells
• A 4" silver sword made for a fairy
• A rough 1" cube of hardwood that leaves red stains on impact
• A 1" black marble perfect sphere
• A shrivelled black elf ear
• A pouch containing the face of a vampire bat
• A tiny wax-sealed jar of air captured in a temple on the Isle of Lanka
• Rolling papers, a stone pipe, 12 kinds of tobacco, some mind-altering
• 32 sticks of incense, each different
• A small iron mortar and pestle
• A beeswax candle, flint and steel
• A sage-scented, smokey tallow candle
• A bit of amber with a wasp encased
• A tiny urn of gray paste made from whale brains
• A scrap of paper wrapped around 16 buzzard feather fragments suitable for fletching
• A copper ring with "All is possible" engraved in an ancient tongue
• An eyepatch with a cat eye drawn on it with blue ink
• A scrap of parchment folded around four dried beans
• A 4" corked bone tube filled with ashes.
• A delicate silver chain with tiny charms representing the Four Winds, Earth, Water, Fire, Plant, and Animal
• An ocarina (rounded ceramic flute)
• A tiny pouch of sparkling diamond dust (actually mica)
• A dessicated wolf paw
• Four prehistoric shark teeth
• A 1" jade female humanoid figure with a grand headdress
• a 1" magnifying lense (no handle)
• A tiny corked ceramic vessel containing 16 hummingbird beaks
• A pouch of bright blue powder used in preparing tattoo ink
• A sliver of fossilized wood
• Three short charcoal pencils
• A delicate (and damaged) lady's fan
• An 18" leather cord (20lb max)
• A scrap of folded vellum containing 4 dessicated cobra tongues
• A 1" ivory elephant
• A 2" amethyst crystal
• The tip of an elephant's tail
• A tiny pouch of powdery red sand
• A scrap of pale leather wrapped around a tuft of black stallion's mane
• A tiny bronze bell
• 3 pieces of chalk
• A folded leaf of tobacco containing a tuft of bull hair
• 6' of thin copper wire
• A forked twig from a tree struck by lightning
• A tiny pouch of bat guano
• A mistletoe sprig
• 26 cactus spines
• A 10" wooden straw
• 33 rose thorns in a red sequined pouch
• A tiny jar of crocodile dung
• A ceramic jar containing a dried up rhinoceros beetle
• An empty hempen pouch that once carried one of the Luma Stones